Tomorrow night into Friday morning there will be a total lunar eclipse, the first such visible in North America in more than three years. Space.com has the minute-by-minute details. For those of us in EDT, we’ll be able to see the entire eclipse–assuming that the weather cooperates, which is unlikely here in the DC area […]
This is a detail from a mural (clicking will pop up a larger detail, though still not the entire mural) on the Columbia Pike branch of the Arlington Country Library and Career Center, which I pass by on my way walking to and from work. Lately I’ve been carrying my camera with me and noticing […]
I went into the kitchen at 8:00 to start dinner, and decided to have a grilled cheese sandwich and french (ever the traitor) fries. So I turned the oven to 450° and came back to the computer while waiting for it (the oven, not the computer) to pre-heat. A while later I returned to the […]
The Chortler offers a summary of top stories from today’s New York Times, as told “by the latest addition to our staff, Jayson Blair.” From the National desk: Bush Flies Air Force One By Himself President George W. Bush flew Air Force One over to Iraq by himself to deliver three separate aid missions. Yeah, […]
We’re in the process of hiring two people for our web development team through our contractor, and today I had three interviews scheduled with folks whose resumes they’ve sent over. The first showed up almost 30 minutes late, having gotten lost on the way. The second called to cancel five minutes before his interview was […]
For those who don’t know–though even those not specifically familiar with its origin probably understand “Bizarro World” in its context within contemporary vernacular–in DC Comics’ Superman title, Bizarro was an imperfect–and near-opposite–duplicate of Superman. Eventually Bizarro Superman relocated to a cube-shaped planet–Bizarro World–where a population of bizarre-looking Bizarro Superman and Bizarro Lois Lane clones lived […]
I did spend some time on the phone with my mother yesterday, for Mother’s Day. I had sent flowers last week, which she got on Friday. I knew they’d be at church, and probably would go out for lunch afterwards (the extended family–mom and dad; sister, brother-in-law and their kids; dad’s sister and brother-in-law; my […]
The weekend went by too quickly, and not particularly enjoyably. Saturday, as I’d already noted, I was at the office from 8 to 3, overseeing a server move. Even though I wasn’t actually doing the work, but was just there as a supervisor, I returned home inordinately exhausted, and ended up napping a couple of […]
Today I took part in The May Day Project, an event in which the participants were to document one day in their life–Saturday, May 10–with photographs taken throughout the day. The thumbnails link to the full-size photos. 0050: Bed. Alex waits for me. 0744: Wakeup. The snooze alarm already has gone off three times. Yes, […]
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